Sports Champions Review

It seems as though every innovative development in video games has a sports product to show you how well it works. The Wii had Wii Sports, the Dreamcast had NFL 2K1, and Virtual Boy had Mario Tennis. Now we have the PlayStation Move and its debut pack-in effort (depending which bundle you buy), Sports Champions. Does it topple the Wii Sports experience? Ehhh, not quite, but it’s a great...
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NHL 11 is even better than last year's game, and that's saying something. It isn't perfect, but it's damn near.
The NHL series from EA Sports has improved year-over-year for the past few years, tweaking gameplay, adding features, and slowly becoming every hockey fan's dream game. It's been as close to the real game as players can get for the past few years, with bone-crushing hits, fights for the puck against the boards, the ability to place shots, and a huge variety of teams and players, but NHL 11 is the best of the series because it improves upon almost everything good, dumps most of the bad, and adds several new gameplay modes and features that make a huge difference and cause some true "holy crap, did that just happen" moments.
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It was a busy week here at Kombo thanks to the Tokyo Game Show, which is trying to make a comeback from obscurity, and as a result, was filled with announcements from Japanese game developers, including the BIZZARRE announcement thatÂ Yakuza 4Â will be a zombie game. Yeah, figure that one out.Â
We also got our hands on Sony's Move for the PlayStation 3, and have several reviews up for the launch games.Â
And, of course, there was the release ofÂ Halo: Reach, which apparently was a huge success, with $200 million in sales on day one. Unfortunately, 90% of those purchasers are still whiny little teenage boys, but with a new auto-mute feature for truly annoying players,Â Reach's online gameplay is better than ever.Â
Check out this week's news after the break and get caught up. There's a lot here, folks, becauseÂ as usual, we cover everything that matters.
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